Melanie Raabe Author

Melanie Raabe was born in 1981 and grew up in former East Germany before moving to West Germany with her family. She studied media and literature and was a magazine editor before becoming a freelance journalist and writer. While freelancing, she performed in shows and wrote two plays, all while crafting novels at night. Melanie Raabe lives in Cologne and loves travelling, cooking, bungee-jumping, tattoos, indie rock, and cats. The Trap, which won the Stuttgart Crime Prize, is her first novel.